How do I install pveceph?

[tacticz]

Hello, I'm experimenting deploying Proxmox on a RaspberryPi using Proxmox-Port.
I'm willing to have the RasPi act as a simple Ceph monitor, no OSD, and thus need to install pveceph.

On a "regular" Proxmox system, installing a specific version of pveceph from a specific repo is done by executing the following command:

pveceph install --repository no-subscription --version reef

I have added the ceph-reef repo to the source list:

> cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list
deb [arch=arm64] https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm ceph-reef

Executing the above pveceph install command surprisingly modifies the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list file, replacing the content with the "original" Proxmox repo (deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-reef bookworm no-subscription), resulting in an error:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have                                                                                                        
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable                                                                                                       
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created      
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
                                          
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ceph-base : Depends: ceph-common (= 17.2.7-pve3) but 18.2.4-pve3 is to be installed 
 ceph-mgr : Depends: libsqlite3-mod-ceph (= 17.2.7-pve3) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: librados2 (= 17.2.7-pve3) but 18.2.4-pve3 is to be installed                                                                                        
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
apt failed during ceph installation (25600)

The pveceph install options are also very restrictive:

> pveceph install --repository ceph-reef --version reef
400 Parameter verification failed.
repository: value 'ceph-reef' does not have a value in the enumeration 'enterprise, no-subscription, test'
pveceph install  [OPTIONS]

I must say I'm a bit stuck at this point, and came here to ask if someone could help me correctly install pveceph on the Proxmox-Port distribution?

Thank you.

[jiangcuo]

https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Port/wiki/Ceph

[tacticz]

Thank you very much for adding this section in the wiki 👍🏼
I'll follow the given instructions., and will come back to mark this thread as solved as soon as I get it working...

Also, thank you so much @jiangcuo for the great work you're doing and sharing, allowing many people like me running Proxmox on systems other than amd64, it's a blessing!